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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Audiobook)
by (shelved 8 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.53 — 734 ratings — published
Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.35 — 325 ratings — published
To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,573 ratings — published 2013
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.29 — 9,565 ratings — published 2023
The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.16 — 499 ratings — published 2001
Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.12 — 892 ratings — published 1996
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.14 — 468,784 ratings — published 1995
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.58 — 44,992 ratings — published 2007
"When the Welfare People Come": Race and Class in the US Child Protection System (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.00 — 115 ratings — published
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,418,742 ratings — published 2005
The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 3.60 — 3,313 ratings — published 2009
Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.10 — 68 ratings — published 2012
Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,945 ratings — published 2025
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.22 — 9,601 ratings — published 2025
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.40 — 116,983 ratings — published 2021
Stranger Care (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,769 ratings — published 2021
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.33 — 314,487 ratings — published 2014
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.21 — 91,422 ratings — published 1997
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,507,691 ratings — published 2017
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,995,127 ratings — published 2018
The Language of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.10 — 237,461 ratings — published 2011
Three Little Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,969 ratings — published 2008
Push (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 3.88 — 60,921 ratings — published 1996
White Oleander (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.01 — 372,852 ratings — published 1999
The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 3.72 — 125 ratings — published 2025
No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.18 — 990 ratings — published 1996
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,602 ratings — published 2024
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.46 — 925,233 ratings — published 2022
Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System: The Case for Abolition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.20 — 25 ratings — published
Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.41 — 712 ratings — published
Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,609 ratings — published 2024
Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services―Notes of a Former Caseworker – A Groundbreaking Investigation of Systemic Racism in Foster Care and Black Families (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.19 — 594 ratings — published 2024
A Place Called Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,435 ratings — published 2022
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,123,019 ratings — published 2020
Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.41 — 565 ratings — published
Separated: Inside An American Tragedy (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,846 ratings — published 2020
Working with Adoptive Parents: Research, Theory, and Therapeutic Interventions (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published 2013
Finding Fernanda: Two Mothers, One Child, and a Cross-Border Search for Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.25 — 237 ratings — published 2011
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.70 — 20,495 ratings — published 2021
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,360,608 ratings — published 2017
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.34 — 6,933 ratings — published 2016
News of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.08 — 115,320 ratings — published 2016
My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.11 — 88,560 ratings — published 1959
The Tiger's Child: What Ever Happened to Sheila? – A Teacher's True Story: The Sequel About a Silent Girl's Transformation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,084 ratings — published 1995
The Children Money Can Buy: Stories from the Frontlines of Foster Care and Adoption (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 3.63 — 126 ratings — published
The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,904 ratings — published 1993
Taking Children: A History of American Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.13 — 138 ratings — published 2020
Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,076 ratings — published 2016
The Book of David: How Preserving Families Can Cost Children's Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 3.65 — 60 ratings — published 1996
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.29 — 250,813 ratings — published 2012
“Any exclusive system is a system of exclusion.”
― Acceptance: A Memoir
― Acceptance: A Memoir
“If you come from privilege,' she explained, 'and you respect money and power, and the people in your court don't have any of that- it's unconcious and sometimes concious racism and classism.”
― We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
― We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
